Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-14
A RANSOM FROM HEAVEN.
TALMAGE TELLS THE PRICE
PAID TO SAVE SOULS.

tied by the Death on the Gross.
BROOKLYN, Feb. 13.--0ver six hum
dred persons have joined the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, pastor, the Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage, u. d., during the present re-
vival, making the communicate member
ship of this church about four thousand.
Professor Henry Eyre Browne rendered
an organ solo, second sonata IN Il minor,
by A. G.. Ritter. The congregational
singing was like the voice OF many waters,
when the pastor gave out the hymn:
''He leadeth me; O blessed thought!
o words with heavenly comfort iraught!" q
The subject of DR.. Talmage's sermon
was "The RansOmed," and his text was
l. Corinthians, VII, 20: "Ye are bought
with a price,"
Your friend takes you through his valuable
house. You examine the arches, the fresco,
the grass plots, the flsh ponds, the conserva-
tories, the parks of deer. and you say within
yourself, or you say aloud: "What did all
this eost?" You see costly apparel. or you
see high mettled span OF horses harnessed
with silver and gold. and you begin to make
an estimate OF the value. The man VINO owns
a large estate cannot instantly tell you what
it is all worth. He says: 81 will estimate 50
much for the house, so much for the furniture,
so much for laying out the grounds, so much
lOE tub SJOCks CD uuuOH lOt tud udTus SO uiuCL
for the equipage- adding up, in all making
this aggregate"
Well, my friends, hear 80 much about our
mansion in heaven. about its furniture and
the grand surrounding, thai want TO know
how much it is all worth, and what has actu-
ally been paid for 1t. cannot complete in
month or year the magnificent calculation;
but before get through to-day | hope Co give
you the figures. 'Ne are bought with
price"
With some friends / went into London
Tower to look st the crown jewels of Eng
land. We walked around, caught one glimpse
of them, and being in the procession were
compelled to pass out. / wish that tOA day
could take this audience into the tower OF
Gods mercy and strength, that you might
walk around just once at least and see the
crown jewels of eternity, behold their brill
llance and estimate their value. ''Ye are
bought with price," Now, If you have
large amount OF money TO pay, you do not
pay it all at once, but you pay it by INSTALL
ments-so much the4irst of January. SO much
the first of April, SO much the first of July, so
much the first of October, until the entire
ence that "You have been bought with a
price," and that that price was paid in differ
ent installments.
The first instaIlment paid for the clearance
of our souls was the igDomlnious birth OF
Christ in Bethlehem. Though we may never
be carefully looked after aflerward, our ad-
vent into the world Is carefully guarded. We
come INTO the world amid kindly attentions,
Privacy and silence are afford ed when COD
launches an immortal soul into the world.
Evenathe toughest OF men know enough to
stand back. But have to tell you that in
The village on the side of the hill, there was
very bedlam of uprOar when Jesus was born.
l. village capable of accommodating only a
few hundred people, many thousand people
were crowded; ana amid ostlers and mu e.
teers, and camel drivers yelling at stupid
beasts of burden, the Messiah appeared.
No silence. No privacy. A better adapted
place hath the eaglet IN the eyrie- hath
he whelp in the lions lair. The exile OF
heaven lieth down upon the straw. The first
night out from the palace of heaven spent IN
an clubhouse, One hour after laying aside the
robes of heaven, dressed in a wrapper of
coarse linen. One would have supposed that
Christ would have made more gradual de-
scent, coming from, heaven first to q halfway
world of great magnitude, then Co Casar's
palace, then to merchants castle in Galiiee,
then to a private home in Bethany, then to a
fisherman's hut, and last of all to the stable.
No! 1t was one leap from the top to the bot
tom.
Let us open the door OF the caravansary in
bethlehem, ana drive away the camels
Press on through the group of idlers aud
loungers. What! o Mary, no light? mo
light" she says "save that which comes
through the door" What, Mary, no foodp
''None." she says. ''only that which Is brought
in the sack on the journey" Let the Bethle
hem woman who has come IN here with kindly
affections put back the covering from the
babe that we may look upon 1t. Look Look! |!
Uncover your head. Let US kneel. Let all
Chlld OF u day-monaroh of eternity! In that
eye the glance of God. Omnipotence sheathed
IN that babe's arm. That voice to be changed
from the feeble plaint TO the tone that shall
wake the dead. Hosanna! Ifosanna! Glory
be to God that Jesus came from throne to
manger that we might rise from manger to
throne, and that all the gates are open, and
that the door of heaven that once swung this
way to let Jesus out, now swings the other
way TO let us in. Let all the bell linen of heaven
lay hold the rope, and ring out the news:
"Behold. bring you glad tidlngs of great
joy, which shall be to all people; for to- day is
born in the city OF David, q Saviour which is
Christ, the LOrdV
The second instalment paid for our soul's
clearance was the scene In Quarantania, a
mountainous region full OF caverns, where
there are TO this day panthers and wild beasts
OF all sorts; 80 that you must now, the trav-
eler SAYS, go there armed with knife or gun
or pistol. 1t was there that Jesus went to
think and pray. and it was there that this
monster OF hell, more sly, more terrific than
anything that prowled In tnat country-Sa-
| tan himself, met Christ. The rose in the
| cheek OF Chrlst-that Publus Lentulus, in his
| letter to the Roman Senate, ascribed to Je-
sus--that rose had scattered its petals. Abb
stinence from fold had thrown him into ema-
| citation. The longest abstinence from food
recorded in profane history 10 that OF the
crew of the ship Juno; for twenty three days
they had nothing to eat. But this sufferer
had tasted month and ten days before He
broke fast.
Hunger must have agonized every fibre Of
the body and gnawed on the stomach with
teeth OF death. The thought of morsei OF
bread or meat must have thrilled the body
with something like ferocity. Turn out a
pack of men hungry as Christ was a-hunger-
ed, and II they had strength, with one yell
they would devOur you as lion a kid. IL
was in that pang of hunger that Jesus was
accosted, and satan SAID: "Now change
these stones. which look like bread, into an
actual supply Of bread" Had the tempta-
tion come TO you or me under those circum-
stances, we would have cried: Bread it
shall bep' and been almost impatient at the
time taken for mastication; but Christ with
one hand beat back the hunger, and with the
other hand beat back the monarch Of dark
ness. O. ye tempted ones! Christ was tempt
ed. We are told that Napoleon orderet a
coat OF mail made; but he was not quite cer-
tain that IL was impenetrable, so he said to
the manufacturer OF that coat of mail:
Put II on now yourself aud
let us try it," and'' with shot
after shot from his own pistol the Emperor
found out that 10 was Just what 1t pretended
to be-a good coat of mail. Then the man re-
same coat Of mail that struck back the
weapons OF temptation from the heart of
Christ we may all now wear; for Jesus comes
and SAYS: II have been tempted, and / know
what It IS to be tenn pied. Take this robe that
defended Me and wear 1t for yourselves. /
will see you through all trials, and / will see
you through all temptation
"But." says Satsn, still further. 10 Jesus,
"come and will show you something worth
looking at" and after a half-day's journey
they came to Jerusalem and 10 the top os the
Temple. just as one might go up in the tower
OF Antwerp and look on upon Belgium. so
flaaf xf.F he.